Compound implement.



NO877,333. PATENTS!) JAN. 21, 1908.

. J. H. HAYNES.

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APPLICATION IILI.D APR. 26. 1907. V

)ttarney y WW JAMES H. HAYNES, on DE LEON, TEXAS.

COMPOUND IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed April 26. 1907. Serial No. 370.435.

T0 011 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. BAYNEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at De Leon, in the county of Comanche and State of Texas, haveinvented a neW and useful Improvement in Compound Implements, of Whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to compound imple ments and particularly to suchan implement designed for use in building and repairing wire fences.

The object of the invention is to combine with a post-hole digger, ofthe ordinary type having a pair of blades or scoops hinged together,certain additional parts by Which a portion of the implement s0compounded, may be readily employed for stretching fence wire, splicingor taking up slack therein.

With these Objects in view the invention consists in the implementsubstantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents the improved implement for use as a post-holedigger; Fig. 2 represents a portion of this implement for use; insplicing fence wire; Fig. 3 represents a portion of said implement foruse in stretching fence wire and Fig. 4 represents a portion of saidimploment for use in taking up slack in fence wire.

5 and 6 represent respectively the scoops or blades of the post-holedigger, which are hinged together at 7 and are provided with handles 8and 9. The handle 8 is, for the present purposes, made removable fromthe socket of blade 5, in Which it may be held by any suitable meanssuch, for instance, as a thumb screw 10. This handle is preferablyconstrncted from a piece of pipe or tubing and preferably also outobliquely at the lower end as indicated. Through this handle may bebored a number of holes in which may be removably inserted eye-pins, asindicated at 12 and 13. These eyepins may carry hooks' of any suitableform, either chain hooks 141 or grab hooks, such as shown at 15. Thehandle is also preferably provided With a hook such as shown at 18,which may be used in hanging up the implen1ent or in the splicing ofwire, as indicated in Fig. 2.

In splicing a wire the handle 8 may carry two'grab hooks or a grab hookand chain hook, as seen in Fig. 2, in which case, a chain may be placedon hook 14 and to its own hook 16, which may be a chain or grab hook,one end of the ence wire 17 may be connected, while the other end of thefence wire 17 may be secured to the hook 15. These connections Would bemade when the upper end of the handle 8 was over at the left. Then byswinging said end over to the right the two ends of the wire Will bebrought together for splicing. T0 hold the handle or lever in positionduring splicing, the hook 18 may be placed over the wire 17, as shown inFig. 2.

In stretching wire but one hook is necessary, as shown in Fig. 3 andthis hook may be a grab hook, as shown, or it may be a chain hook with awire looped in it, as seen at 16 in Fig. 2. Or if desired, and necessarybecause of the wire 19 not being long enough to reach the post indicatedat 20, achain may be inserted in the hook on the lever and the wireconnected to the end of the chain. The

ointed end of the lever 18 Will hold said ever to the post in theoperation of stretchmg.

In taking up the slack, particularly in wire that has hung for sonnetime, the lever 8 may be used as indicated in Fig. 4, wherein a chainhook 14: is preferably used and to this a piece of chain, as 21, may beconnected as by its middle link, while hooks, preferably chain hooks 16,on the ends of the piece of chain are placed over the slack wire 22.Then by pressing the lever downward with its sharpened end restingagainst the post 23, the wire may be brought against the sides of thepost and tacked there or a short length of wire, as indicated in dottedlines at 24, may be passed over the wire 22 on theside of the postopposite to its original stapling and, thereby hold the slack taken upby the implement. A piece of cable or wire rope With ooks at its endsmay obviously be used in the lace of the chain 21.

T e handle 8 may consist of an ordinary crowbar provided with thenecessary holes for the eye-pins 12 and 18 and the hook 18.

The invention claimed is:

' In a wire stretcher, a lever provided with transverse holes near thelower end thereof, and having eye-bolts carrying wire stretching hooksremovably inserted in said holes and a hook connected to the upper endof said lever and serving as a catch or holding hook and also as ahanging hook, said lever being tu- Dame to this specification in thepresence of blar and out oblquelyhat i1s lower and md two subscribingwitnesses.

a apted to be use as a, and e for a ost- 0 e digger, with one of thescoops 0f whih it may' JAME,S HAYNES' 5 be.removably connected,substantially as set Witnesses:

forth. V A. E. HAMPTON,

In testimony whereof I have signed my GORDON*BAGWELL.

